Category: Nebraska
Engagement Through the Mail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/16Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine getting engaged to someone you only knew through letters. That’s what happened here, thanks to one young lady who…
The Payoff of a Group Effort
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/15Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a massive volunteer effort involving people from well over a hundred communities scattered across western Nebraska and beyond. …
A Gift with Impact
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/14Sep20-North-Platte-WWII-Canteen-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Rae Wilson went to the depot to give her brother a Christmas gift. When he did not arrive, a new…
A City Within A City
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/11Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The population of North Platte, Nebraska is about 23,000 people. That’s also about the number you might find working at…
The Golden Spike Tower
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/10Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Golden Spike Tower, a platform that rises from the High Plains to provide a bird’s eye view…
The Center of the Nation’s Rail Car Traffic
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/09/09Sep20-Golden-Spike-Tower-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s the largest rail yard in the world and it sits in a small city in the middle of the…
A Place Called Carhenge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/27Aug20-Carhenge-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In all of my travels I have found several themes that seem to hold true across many small towns. One…
A Unique Site at Alliance, Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/26Aug20-Carhenge-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KCOW in Alliance, Nebraska. Look up that town in an atlas and…
A Favorite Attraction in Rural Nebraska
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/08/25Aug20-Carhenge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)My son is in the 7th grade. Ask him what one of his favorite attractions was on any family vacation…
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Europe
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/29May20-Buffalo-Bill-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the eve of Word War I, the European portion of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show quickly found their operation…
Was Buffalo Bill a Good Guy or a Bad Guy?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/28May20-Buffalo-Bill-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Was Buffalo Bill a good guy or a bad guy? Well, that all depends on who you talk to around…
The First Modern Day Rodeohttp://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/27May20-Buffalo-Bill-2.mp3
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/27May20-Buffalo-Bill-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Where was the first rodeo held? Many may try to lay claim to that title, but we do know who…
Famous for Food for Railroad Workers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/05/26May20-Buffalo-Bill-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This man became famous because he supplied food for railroad workers. Perhaps that doesn’t sound that extraordinary, but you certainly…
Eating An Insect
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/27Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I was recently asked to eat an insect as part of these broadcasts. I was probably like most people and…
More Livestock Than the Neighbors
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/26Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cheryl Powers may just have the more livestock on her operation than any other livestock owner in the state of…
An Insect That Launched a Career
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/25Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people don’t like bugs. They might imagine they can creep and crawl and scare you when you least expect…
Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/04Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Being attacked by a grizzly bear was bad in itself. Now imagine your friends left you for dead and you…
The Story of Hugh Glass
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/03Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you know Hugh Glass, then you most likely know him for his run in with a Grizzly Bear. There…
Trading in the 1800s
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/02Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you did business on the high plains in the 1800s, transactions often took place in trade items. That was…
Lewis and Clark…or Alexander McKenzie
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/01Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Have you heard of Lewis and Clark or Alexander McKenzie? Chances are you have heard of one but not the…
